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rezoning application, our role as the Planning Commission is just to make a recommendation to the County Council who will make the final decision. And Ill start off this agenda item today. Well have Jeff give us a brief presentation; he gave us a presentation at our last meeting. And after he gives a brief presentation and points out anything thats new that has come since then, then Im going to invite the applicants to come up and give us their presentation. If you may recall, last time I held them to a very, just brief overview of what was involved, so they never had a real chance to delineate their project in detail. So, Jeff, go ahead. DARROW:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good Morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Planning Commission. If I can direct your attention to the location map, the area of this application is within the South Hilo District of Hawaii. More specifically, we are looking at the area of Pepeekeo. On the location map this is identified mainly in yellow, which is Residential zoning. The areas of the application are outlined in yellow. More specifically, for reference we have the Hawaii Belt Road running in a north-south direction, as well as Old Mamalahoa Highway. Therearetwoareasassociatedwiththisapplication.OneisParcel111identifiedinthis particular area; this area will include a State Land Use Boundary amendment from Agricultural to Urban for 6.7 acres, as well as a Change of Zone from Ag-20 to RS-7.5 for the same particular area of 6.7 acres, as well as a Change of Zone from Agricultural-20 to Agricultural-5 for the remainder areas associated with this particular parcel. Additionally, the applicant is requesting a Change of Zone from Ag-20 to Ag-10 in this particular area on the property for approximately 118 acres. This morning the Planning Commission had the opportunity to conduct a site inspection of the areas associated with this application as well as the issues that have been raised by the public. The applicants in this case, Hawaii Island Community Development as well as Hawaiian Rainbows Business Development, LLC, are requesting these proposed changes to the Planning Commission. Since our last meeting the Planning Department has made changes to the Recommendation; weve added a new Condition B as well as a revision from the original Condition D, which will now be the new Condition E. With the addition of the new Condition B, all Conditions after that will be re-alphabetized. Additionally, since our last meeting, thereve been numerous letters that have come into the Planning Department, as well as a letter thats been generated by the Planning Director. If I can just briefly mention these to make sure that the Commissioners do have these. This morning we received a letter from the Pepeekeo Community Association, Lorraine Mendoza, as well as Lucille Meek, Steven Meek, Lucy Snyder & Chris Gallery, Bob and Duyen Williams, and also weve received a letter from the applicants speaking to some of the issues regarding this. Again I want to bring to your attention as well a letter thats dated th April 27 from the Planning Director to Ms. Lorraine Mendoza with the Pepeekeo Community Association, addressing questions that the Association had sent into the Planning Director. YUEN:Just one thing for the Commissioners, there was supposed to be the same topomapthatyouareseeinguphereattachedtothatletter,andapparentlyitwasntputinyour copy, so Im going to just pass that out right now. GRAHAM:Commissioner Siracusa? 2EXHIBIT A